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The evening world., 1887-10-17
THE TWIN RELIC MUST 40,

Polygamy, that alien brat Of barbarism,
dies hard. Cherished and defended as Q re-
ligion, it manages to evade law and defy
justice.
The bulwark of this un-American system is
the Mormon hierarchy. This is a despotism
within the Republic. It exacts from its men,
bers and victims an allegiance o~utranking
that due to the National Government. The
religio-civi Mormon Church is in reality
inchoate rebellion. A standing rebellion
should not be permitted on United States
territory.
The hierarchy is now opposing the enforce
ment Of the law for the dissolution OF the
Mormon close corporations. A hearing of
the case begins to-day. The Government
should make it evident that it proposes to
enforce the law.
The evening world., 1887-10-17
A PARTISAN PLINa,

THEODORE ROOSEVELT, who once pro-
claimed himself an independent, has degen-
Grated into o partisan Of the partisans. He
now INDUCES in q gratuitous fling at the Pro-
h~ibitionists, clubbing them "cranks" and
gentlemen of doubtful political honesty"
The plain fact Of the matter is, that the
Prohibitionists, and the GEoRar men as we'll,
have nothing to fear in a comparison on the
score Of honesty with either Of the old par
ties. The new organizations are fighting dis
tinctively for what they conceive to be i'm
portant moral and reformatory ideas. They
honesty cannot be questioned.
What is 80 blind and unfair as partisan.
shin?
The evening world., 1887-10-17
BLAINE Is GAY AND HAPPY.
HIS FRIENDS THINK HE WILL NOT RUN
FOR PRESIDENT NEXT YEAR.
Remarkable Statements Of Acquaintance
who Have Lately Passed Trough London
MIR. Blaine IL Not Ill or Discouraged, Still
They Say lie II Not Likely TO be the
Next Republican Candidate for President.
ESPECIAL CABLE TO rHE EyEsINo wonLp.l

ESPECIAL CABLE TO THE EVENING WORLD
LONDON, Oct. 17.-Mr. Blaine has now been
in Paris for two weeks, and man. Of his
friends who have seen him there, as well as
many who met him in Germany, Aus
tria and Switzerland, have lately passed
through London en- route to America. There
is something strange in the feet that all of
these friends have gained the impression
that Mr.. Blaine does not desire to be nomi-
mated for the Presidency next year.
some Of them, indeed, put it that he does
not intend TO be o candidate. If asked, how-
ever, whether they speak authoritively, these
gentlemen invariably say mo" but still give
their impression with great confidence.
When asked, as many Of them had been,
whether his assumed intention Of Mr..
Blaine's originates from consideration Of his
is impossible, for Mr.. Blaine is in
better health and looks gayer than he
has for ten years. Nor do they infer
that Mr.. Blaine's position is based
upon any encouragement in the political
situation. It is we'll known by all who have
talked with him that Mr.. Blaine regards the
prospect of Republican success in 1888 as
infinitely better than it appeared in 1884,
when the defeat was so narrow.
l state these facts without ~coloring or with
out speculation thereon, further than to say
that such conclusions may be taken with Gnu
ton 80 long as Mr.. Blaine authorizes no pub.
lie statement. But the fact remains, that al
of Mr.. Blaine's friends who have been in Eu
rope this summer carry home the impression
that the Republican candidate of 1884 viii
not be in the field next year.
The evening world., 1887-10-17
POLICEMAN HAHN WORN OUT.
Suffering From Nervous Prostratiop and
Unable to Do Duty.

Suffering From Nervous Prostratiop and
Unable to Do Duty.
Policeman Edward Hahn, who shot Capt.
Jack Hussey and was acquitted, has not yet
done duty in the fremont precinct, to which
he was transferred when his shield was given
back to him by the Superintendent.
His work in Capt. Robbins's precinct was
to nave begun at 8 o'clock On Saturday even
ing, but at 4.30 O'Clock that afternoon Hahn
walked into the station-house and told Sergt.
F. w. Martins that he was too ill to go on
duty. He looked exhausted, and there was a
suspicion of liquor about his breath accord
ing to the Sergeant. While he lay on o bench
in the rear room Police Surgeon Luoien
D~amainvllle was sent for. He lives at Eighty
fourth street and the Western Boulevard,
and did not reach the s~tation-house till
nearly 7 O'Clock.
He examined Hahn and found him suffer
ing from nervous prostitution, caused by long
continued mental strain. He considered
him unfit for duty and the officer was there.
fore sent to his home in East Seventy-sixth
street, DR.. Damainville gave him q tonic
and visited him yesterday and to-day.
Unless the Police Board at to-morrow't
meeting orders him to be put to trial on the
old charge of intoxication, Hahn will resume
police duty on Wednesday.
The evening world., 1887-10-17
L BLY's MISSION.

The widespread popular interest aroused
by NELLIE Buys story in the Sunday Womb
of her remarkable ~sojourn in the Insane Asy-
lum on Blackwell's Island should bear some
fruit Of reform.
Her mission was undertaken, not for sensa-
tional purposes, but to ascertain the exact
facts about q public institution peculiarly in
accessible to public scrutiny. Her simply
told story is instinct with the force Of truth
in every line.
The hemming and having and hedging of
the doctors and attendants avail nothing.
The facts are out. Reform is imperative in
the methods Of treating the poor, unbalanced
creatures incarcerated in the Asylum. An in
creased appropriation is obviously required
flor the better maintenance of these institu-
ftions. II should be given without question.
little less for the boodlers and harpies.
end Q little more for the helpless wards of the
vcitv.
The evening world., 1887-10-17
FROM THE WHIRL OF POLITICS.

Maurice B. Flynn-Rollin NJ. Squire is ex-
pected home in O week or two.
Senator John ]. Cullen-It looks as if I was
to be bowled out of a denomination.
Maurice ]. Power, P. flames Fitzgerald
will be nominated for District Attorney.
Ex-Assemblyman Peter F. Murray-I re-
signed from Irving Hall more than a week
ago.
Col. Theodore A. H~amilton--The betting ID
81, 900 to $500 in favor of the Republican
State ticket.
Jeremiah Pangborn-George B. Deane. IT,,
will be Civil Justice Parker's successor. I
have $500 that says 80.
Ex-Excise Commissions Nicholas Haugh-
ton-Irving Hall is still on deck. We will be
heard from in a few days.
Jacob Phillips-Yes, / am q candidate for
the United Democratic nomination for As
sembly in the Third District.
Senator Thomas O: Dunham-I am not q
candidate for denomination. Yes, my name
has been mentioned for Comptroller.
Ex-Sheriff James O'Brien-I think the
ticket headed by Henry George will get
$4,000 votes in New York and Kings counties.
Col. James J. Mooney-n the Senatorial
nomination in the Eleventh District comes to
the County Democracy I will come near get
ting 1t.
Sheriff Hugh ]. Grant-The Tammany Hall
Assembly Conventions meet tonight. They
will probably adjourn after appointing Con-
ference Committees
The evening world., 1887-10-17
JUST DROPPED INTO TOWN..

Albany's Judge Edward Countryman is at
the Murray Hill.
The Park Avenue shelters Rear-Admiral
Smith, of the Navy.
Among the Hoffman's guests is Maj. Gen.
Absalom Baird, U. s. A..
Quietly CHARTERED at the Windsor is ex-
Mayor Jonathan Scoville, of Buffalo.
The Scottish philosophical divine, Prof.
Henry Drummond, Is at the Wjndso Hotel.
Ex.-Adjt.- Gen. John G. Farnsworth's stall
wart form may be met in the corridors of
the Hoffman.
Editor and Publisher j. N. Matthews, of
Buffalo, has found q temporary resting place
at the Murray Hill.
Michael H. DeYoung, of San Francisco.
with his family, has made his home for the
present at the Brunswick.
One of New York's most prominent jurists
and lawyers, Geo. F.. Comstock, of Syracuse,
is a guest of the Windsor.
Supreme Court Justice Charles Daniels, of
Buffalo, who is sitting in General Term, is at
the Fifth Avenue, accompanied by his wife.
That stalwart representative Of Southwest
ern Democracy, United States Senator Vest,
Of Missouri, occupies a room at the Gilsey
House.
Chicago's shrewd and successful operator,
John b. Lyon, has come to the city to give
points to the tyros of Wall street. He is at
the Gilsey.
Miss D. T. Littler, of Springfield, ILL.,, has
Joined her husband, Commissioner Littler, Of
the Pacific Railway Commission, at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel.
The mar who was introduced to H.. R. II.
of Wales as q representative American-Gov.
r. A. Alger, OF Michigan-stops at the Fifth
Avenue for the present.
Col. E.. S. Jenney. of Syracuse law partner
of Chief Justice Ruger, of the Court of APP
peals. and a Democrat of the Tammany
stripe, is at the Park Avenue Hotel.
William s. Stillman, the representative in
Rome of the London Times, is spending in
New York the last four weeks of a two
months leave of absence.1
DIR. Oscar Jennings. one of the most dis
tinguished of Partisan doctors, electrical
physician to the Clinique of st. Anne and
Paris correspondent of the Lancet, is staying
at the Hotel Brunswick.
The evening world., 1887-10-17
THE e TONIGHT,

It is quite safe to say that there will be no
wild charges or clubbing by the police at the
meeting Of the Progressive Labor party in
Union Square tonight. Public opinion has
declared itself too Indignantly in relation to
the outrage of aweek ago to have any danger
of its repetition.
The injunctions of Mr.. SHEvIrcK to his
sympathizers are sensible and timely. Let
every nan constitute himself his own police
man. and avoid everything which might
give rise to interruptions or confusion of any
kind" and there will be no difficulty.
New York is in no danger from liberty that
IS not license, mol. from freedom that is not
incendiary. The right Of peaceful public
assembly must not be interfered with. Give
70 Truth the "open field" from which she
inever yet retired discounted.
The evening world., 1887-10-17
THE ISSUE.

The issue in the local election is narrowed
10 this question, as stated by the Herald a
fortnight ago:
DO Qe people run his city. or do ne friends
Of he boodlers ,oho are moo in Sing Sing or
Canddai"
Since the issue was thus clearly stated the
" friends Of the boodlers" have been rein
forced by two o~nce-powerful morning new
papers, that nave abandoned, without as
signed cause, the advocacy Of Mr.. NIcoLL's
nomination for District Attorney. Yet this
need not and does not discourage the friends
of honest government. The press is pow
erful only when 1t is true TO its honest con-
victions-when IL champions the cause of the
people against boodlers, bribers and roguet
of every kind.
VI With the issue thus made up the choice of
Mr.. NIooLL as public prosecutor is of more
! importance to the citizens Of New York thar
any other question involved in the election
The evening world., 1887-10-17
A WELCOME TO DICKENS.

Mr.. CHARLES DICKENS, jr., who arrived
from England this morning, will find that
his great father, the master novelist, is not
yet forgotten in this country. We have
reared n school of mosaic realism and fine-
spun sentimentalism in fiction. But DICKENS
is yet without a peer, and none are more
faithful in their appreciation than the Ameri-
can people.
His fathers genius is ample introduction
for the younger DICKENS. But he will be
judged on his W merits, and esteemed, we
trust, for his own sake.
The evening world., 1887-10-17
MRS. POTTER AND HER GOWNS.
Home Aguin with n Lot of Them (which
Worth Would Call Dreams.

Home Asain with n Lot Of Them (which
Worth Would Call Dreams.
Mrs. James Brown Potter came back from
Europe yesterday imbued with the excellent
idea that " actions, not words' will best suit
her purposes. The hackneyed u%tteranoes of
transatlantic dramatic arrivals she positively
scorned. She declined to gush about the
dear public, did not make q point OF the fact
that she was glad to be back in America, and
told no stories about the Prince of Wales and
the English aristocracy.
The only little luxury abe allowed herself
and II was an exquisitely pardonable one
was o description Of the costumes which she
will wear in Mile. de Bressier."
Mrs. Potter has what Worth would call
sundry dreams " in the way Of dresses, and
as she was interested in them herself, she
rightly imagined that other people would like
to hear about them.
Mrs. Potter declared that she had no inten-
ton, when she went to London, of starring
in England. She was anxious to secure an
engagement In the stock company of the Hay
market Theatre, for the sake Of the expert
ence it would give her.
Mr.. Miner will sell the choice of seats for
Mrs. Potter's first performance by auction on
Oct. 10, and there will doubtless be some in
teresting bidding.
The evening world., 1887-10-17
MRS, T E RETURN.

Mrs. JAMES Brown POTTER is with us
once again. Does histrionic renown await
her on her native health What man and
particularly what woman can doubt it2 She
brings forty-three trunks full of new Worth
dressesi
Mrs. PorTEnhas certainly shown persistence,
and that ounts on the boards as everywhere
else. She has been plucky, too. And that
is q quality Americans particularly admire.
As for the London critics. they never agree
about anything. We will gaze at Mrs. PoT.
TER, her revised acting and her magnificent
new wardrobe with American eyes.
The evening world., 1887-10-17
ELECTRICIAN MOFFATTS ESCAPE.
A Scene Of Excitement in the Western Union
Operating Room.

A Scene Of Excitement in the Western Union
Operating Room.
John Moffatt, one of the best known and
most skilful electricians in the operating de-
partment Of the Western Union Office, 1876
Broadway, had n one-minute encounter with
a dynamo battery last Friday which he will
remember as long as he lives. He
WINS engaged in testing one of the loops
which runs from the main Office, in Broad
street, and had occasion to use a dynamo bat
terry. Mr.. Moffatt went behind the switch
board to handle the wires and another cleo
trician was directed to put on the dynamo.
A moment later there was an awful yell from
behind the switchboard, and the 500 en-
ployees in the room thought their day had
come.
Help went quickly to the screaming Mr..
Moffat, who had a ground wire in one hand
and the dynamo wire in the other and was
unable to let go Of either: The second cleo:
trician had connected the powerful
battery before Mr.. Moffatt was
ready, and, aside from the terrific
shock, he now carries around two badly
burned hands. the electricity having passed
into one hand. through the body and out the
other hand, burning the flesh wherever thu
wire touched it, Had Mr.. Moffat beer
afflicted with any cardiac trouble the shocl
would have killed him.
The evening world., 1887-10-17

his decisions have been reversed by, the
higher courts. The Republicans are talking
of nominating Henry Kropf, who succeeded
the tn ia late s; MiShSs, E65js s1;D, as tn The v maG = cierR Ro in
the law office Of Assemblyman ErnestsCrosoy,
son Of the Rev. Howard Crosby.
II Justice Ambrose Mcneil is not promoted
to q higher court he may stand for re-elec-
district covers q good deal of the Twentieth
and Twenty-irst Assembly districts. Ex-
Civil Justice J. O. Julius Langbein is hunt
ing for the Republican nomination, and he
has the idea that he can win If q Labor can
didate should get into the race.
Ex-senator Frederick 8. Gibbs and his
friends nave declared war against Civil
Justice Frederick G.. Gedney in the Eighth
District: They say that II Gedney Is renom-
ton day. The anti. Gibbs Republicans vow
by reform and dude politics that they will
slaughter any nominee brought to the front
by the wicked ex-senator. This pretty
several Democrats banker. after the Justice
ship of the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Assem-
bly, districts. Assemblyman Mulry wonld
take it. So would John Joralemon. The
United Democratic nomination would not go
a-begging. Two Democratic candidates and
one Republican candidate would elect the
Republican.
II is said that Tammany Hall and the
County Democracy have come to an under.
Sthuu1uB IN the Harlem JuulClhl ulstIlCt. Jus
tice Henry P. McGown. who has grown
gray on the bench, is to retire. and ex-Assem.
blyman Joseph F. Fallon, County Democ.
racy, is to secure the union prize. Assembly.
man Jacob A Cantor, Tammany Hall, 10 to be
nominated for Senator as successor to Will.
lam @. Traphagen. The above combination
is thought TO be very likely.
II Tammany Hall names the Senator in the
Eleventh District the County Democracy will
name the candidate for Civil Justice. Leo
@. Dessar, Tammany Hall, is now Justice. Il
is O new district. Justice Dessar would like
to see the County Democracy draw the Sena
torial nomination. He might then be nom
are pressing him for Justice. He is tn,
County Democracy chief in the Nineteenth
Assembly District,
The evening world., 1887-10-17
THR PEOPLES LAND.

II might have gone without saying that the
Northern Pacific Railroad will contest in
the courts" the order of the Interior Depart
ment opening to settlement thousands of
acres of public lands which it has long lille
.gally held in its devil-fsh tentacles.
That is the corporation way-grab all You
can and never let 60.
Thu thing for the Government to do is to
put the settlers in possession and then let the
company fight. The mine points of the law +"
have too long been enjoyed by this land
grabbing corporation.
The peoples land for the people is the true
motto.
The evening world., 1887-10-17
Answers to Correspondents.

". THE WORLD alone OF New York news
papers, keeps the public Informed In regard. TO is
circulation. All other papers keep their circuia-
ton a secret.
j. H.-There ia nothing In the Penal Code 30 far
as we know, that forbids your telling fortunes or
nance-only the recording angel knows what the
city ordinance forbids.
Il. THE inspector who signs the election
returns Is entitled 10 the SST. 80 which Is paid for
service, A man who serves four days and resigns
will not be paid. He can get paid by making .
private Arrangement with his successor.
j. e. E-The Penal Code makes " Q misde.
meanOr TO manufacture or TO sell any imitation Of
food, unless II Is plainly marked and properly
labelled as such. II does not forbid q man buying
and eating oleomargarine IL he prefers IL TO butter,
AZ our m~illlonaireA do when they - on yacht
cruises, i
The evening world., 1887-10-17
BOsToN's PRIDE.

The announcement that Boston's ten thou
nnd dollar baseballist, NIKE KELLY, is to
travel with Q minstrel company in the capac-
Ity of interlocutor during the winter season,
indicates that the Hub is ambitious OF reoov-
sring her prestige as an intellectual centre.
The renown of BURoEss, of SULLIVAN and
of the Only MIKE in the ball field, does not
quite satisfy her. With the roma Of % Bos.
tom culehaw " breathed over q minstrel per-
The evening world., 1887-10-17
FIGURING ON THE LABOR VOTE.
President French and Henry George Think
the Democrats VIII Suffer Most.

Nhs "Aa TWILL
the Democrats VIII Suffer Most.
President Stephen b. French, Of the Board
Of Police, is an intense partisan Republican,
and never fails to score q point for his politi-
cal friends when he can. To on EVENING
WORLD reporter he said yesterday:
THE Republicans will carry this State
this fall as sure rs my name is French.
Every report received shows that the people
Democratic ranks by q separate labor party
will add greatly to the Republican majority"
Where do you place the Labor vote J"
THE Labor vote in New York and Brook.
MIR. French said eI%ultantly, " and that will
give the Republicans the State"
How much Of the Labor vote will come
from the Republicans"
$4,000 drawn from the Democrats. am not
prepared to say how large the Labor, vote
will be in the State, but IL will be heavy
in all the large cities. The, Prohibi.
ton vote in this State will be, about
80, ooo-.so that it is easily seen that the bulk
of the loss will fall upon the Democrats.
This assures the State to the Republicans.
II will be the first gun for 1888 and means
the election Of a Republican President. Who
our candidate will be am not prepared to
will be the man."
After this bit of political wisdom, Mr..
French was ready to attend to police business
on q strictly - nom partisan " basis.
When an EVENING Womb reporter asked
Henry George this morning what he thought
his vote would be, Mr.. George pulled out the
$3.50 watch voted TO him at the Anti Poverty
Fair, and said that he would have to be brief,
as he was in an awful hurry.
/ am not n good guesser," he continued,
" but l think the lowest figure for the
United Labor party. will he 200 900, and /
believe II will reach 300, 900. Wherever ]
have spoken, 1 have received the attention OF
everybody, especially the farmers. The peo-
pie are ready for q change. The old party
ines are down, and the people want some
Who will be the next Secretary Of State p
Henry George or Col. Fred Grant. ! do
not believe the Democracy has o ghost OF q
chance in the coming election. Our vote
will come very largely from the Democrats.'
Mr.. George then hurried away to catch O
train. He will speak this week at Albany
P~oughkeepsie, Yonkers and other cities. .Hif
debate with Mr.. Shevitoh will tax place
next Sunday evening. It has been proposed
that the Anti Poverty Society foregoi its meet
ing on that night, and the debate take place
in the Academy of Music. Mr.. Sheyitct
favors this arrangement, and it is believed
that Mr.. George will.
The evening world., 1887-10-17
FIGS AND THlSTLES.

A gigantic and beautiful statue OF the Droscuri
has been unearthed near Baia, on the Gulf Of
Naples, Italy.
Mrs. Langtry has ordered for her private use a
Mann boudoir car, which is to cost $50, 900, and
work on 1t was begun last Wednesday.
Mrs. Dorman, OF Sumter County, Ca, has sent
to the Piedmont Exposition in Atlanta q crazy quilt
composed Of %, 300 pieces of silk, In each OF which
there are about twenty stitches.
A San Juan boys leglwas amputated because OF
injury and buried In the Catholic cemetery, The
next night he suffered Intense agony, complaining
that the toes Of the amputated limb were cramped.
The leg was disinterred, the toes Strengthened, and
the PAIN has not bothered him since,
The packing industry Is steadily going West.
A syndicate Of Chicago men has notified the mer-
chants OF Reno, New, that 1t viii invest
81, 900. 900 in slaughterlng-h there and dress
the beef on the spot, instead of shipping the live
stock TO the Eastern packing-houses.
They tell Of COWS down in Florida that from
constant feeding on sea moss, in the absence of
grass, have become aquatic In their tastes. They
swim and dive with great case, and In their water
lives have but one enemy, the eel, which attaches
itself to their udders and extracts all the milk.
A wild man who for twenty years lad lived the
life Of a hermit in the woods near Beau
mont, Tex, was captured some months ago and
brought into town, where a little cottage was given
him and every effort made to civilize him. But he
pinned for the hardships OF his old life and died.
An Indian appeared In Dayton, W. t., In fun
war paint and ran amuck through the streets, ter
rifying the town. Everybody gave way before
him until a muscular clergyman named Chamber.
lain appeared on the scene with a horsewhlp and
drove the Infatuated red man into the mountains.
The missing link has been found among The
Clayoquoit Indians Of British Columbia. lie has
the stature Of a man, but his face looks like a mon
keys, although he lacks the hairy coat that usu,
ally covers an ape. He shambles along on al
fours and fnds great difficulty in standing :erect
lie cannot talk.
Late exchanges from Honolulu describe tn,
splendid funeral procession that accompanied IN,
remains OF His Highness Prince Edward Abel Kelli
shonhi to their last resting place. The Prince diet
of typhoid fever during the last week OF septem
Der, He was eighteen years old, and . youth o
great promise,